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Motivation: This makes it possible to use the new buffer API in Netty as is. Modification: Make the MemSegBuffer implementation class implement AsByteBuf and ReferenceCounted. The produced ByteBuf instance delegates all calls to the underlying Buffer instance as faithfully as possible. One area where the two deviates, is that it's not possible to create non-retained duplicates and slices with the new buffer API. Result: It is now possible to use the new buffer API on both client and server side. The Echo* examples demonstrate this, and the EchoIT proves it with a test. The API is used more directly on the client side, since the server-side allocator in Netty does not know how to allocate buffers with the incubating API.
Netty Incubator Buffer API
This repository is incubating a new buffer API proposed for Netty 5.
Building and Testing
Short version: just run make.
The project currently relies on snapshot versions of the Panama Foreign fork of OpenJDK.
This allows us to test out the most recent version of the jdk.incubator.foreign APIs, but also make building, and local development more involved.
To simplify things, we have a Docker based build, controlled via a Makefile with the following commands:
image– build the docker image. This includes building a snapshot of OpenJDK, and download all relevant Maven dependencies.test– run all tests in a docker container. This impliesimage. The container is automatically deleted afterwards.dbg– drop into a shell in the build container, without running the build itself. The debugging container is not deleted afterwards.clean– remove the leftover containers created bydbg,test, andbuild.build– build binaries and run all tests in a container, and copy thetargetdirectory out of the container afterwards. This is the default build target.